The system being described is a border-wide conspiracy: 'Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with Deliveries starting at $4000,' the president posted Wednesday, predicting 'Billions of Dollars will be illegally made by this SCAM' and demanding the Supreme Court rehear the birthright-citizenship case 'IMMEDIATELY' [1]. The paperwork behind the conspiracy is smaller. Two billboards. One hospital. Both already down [2].
Here is the documented record. Mission Regional Medical Center, a hospital in South Texas, ran two billboards within roughly five miles of a border crossing, advertising maternity packages through a website: 3,950 dollars for a natural delivery, 5,525 for a C-section [2]. The billboards and the website came down Monday [2]. The post describing signs that 'are being put up' - present tense, all over the border, and in Mexico - went up Wednesday, two days after the entire documented inventory of the conspiracy had ceased to exist [1][2]. Texas's governor has directed the state's health agency to investigate the hospital [3]; whatever that inquiry finds, it will be examining two former billboards.
Make the system explain its categories. A hospital charging 3,950 dollars for a delivery is selling childbirth - a thing American hospitals bill for every day, usually at far more than 3,950 dollars. It cannot sell citizenship at any price, because citizenship is not the hospital's to sell: the Fourteenth Amendment confers it on 'all persons born' here, as the Supreme Court affirmed 6-3 on June 30, Chief Justice Roberts writing that children born in the US 'are citizens at birth' - a holding that traces to Wong Kim Ark in 1898 [2]. 'AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE!' [1] is, in this narrow sense, correct: nobody was selling it. A hospital was selling epidurals.
The 'Billions of Dollars' to be 'illegally made' is a prediction about a future scam, and we do not rate predictions - only note the arithmetic available today: two billboards, one hospital, 3,950 dollars a customer, zero of it illegal.
The demand the inflation supports deserves its own record. Asking the Supreme Court to rehear an argued case is a petition the rules technically allow and the Court essentially never grants: it has not agreed to a rehearing since 1965, and it last reversed itself on one in 1956 [2]. Every child born in this country holds the same citizenship the day after the post as the day before. What changed is the story being told about them - a story whose entire physical evidence was two signs near one Texas crossing, taken down before the telling began.
